ELR Citation: 49 ELR 20177
No(s). 18-1087 (JEB) (D.D.C. Oct 28, 2019) (Boasberg, J.)

A district court enjoined a NMFS rule that opened two areas of previously protected North Atlantic right whale habitat off the New England coast to gillnet fishing. An environmental group argued that the Sustainable Fisheries Division (SFD) of NMFS failed to consult with the agency’s Protected Res...